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The European model has yet to be announced but it will be in the 800 model range somewhere above 860. They’ll show up on Amazon somewhere here when they finally hit the shelves which I suspect will be before too long.
What is it about Londoners and their complete and utter lack of good taste when it comes to drinking coffee? I back this up with the fact that there are more Starbucks coffee shops per square kilometre in London than anywhere else in the world. I admit now that I do on occasion have the a cup of the aforementioned coffee but the only reason for this is that it is the only coffee within reasonable walking distance of the office….. and I don’t drink the instant muck.
In the last couple of years that I’ve been living in London I’ve been on the lookout for good coffee. Well to be honest whenever I travel I try to find a good coffee. Its quite rare that I have found it. Like Starbucks the other place that I rarely find good coffee is in hotels so generally, unless I’m working, I’ll try and find somewhere near where I’m staying with something that resembles a reasonable cup of my favourite hot beverage. Over my time in London I have found places that have reasonable coffee but nothing that I class as great.
As a general rule the couple of things that I usually look for to get a half drinkable cup of coffee is simple. Firstly I look online to see if I can find some recommendations. Failing that I look for a couple of major coffee brands. Segafredo Zanetti is one, Illy is another or failing that I find most brands of Fairtrade Coffee generally offer a reasonable cup.
So are there any better than reasonable coffees that I’ve had lately? Yes! Recently I found Monmouth Coffee in central London. No idea why I hadn’t found it before and what’s more I found it while trying to find a good place for coffee in South West London (any recommendations on that one would be great). Anyway it comes highly recommended, but the flagship cafe in Monmouth St is tiny so its quite hard to get somewhere to sit. They also have a store down in Borough and are about to move their roasting from Monmouth St to a larger facility in a rail arch in Rotherhithe, I assume they’ll also have a Cafe there too.
Out of London if your after really good coffee in New York City I can recommend both Jack’s Stir Brew, some of the best coffee I’ve had in a long time, and Grey Dog Coffee at 90 University Place, not far from Union Square. Jack’s Stir Brew was another small cafe, but Grey Dog had lots of space and does good breakfast too.
Any recommendations for good coffee in London add details to the comments as I’m always on the lookout for good coffee
Wow, for the first time ever gold has reached USD $1000 an ounce. Yes, that’s right, all of about 28g. I can remember five years or so ago when in Australia they were closing marginal gold mines and mothballing them because they couldn’t cover their running costs. I seem to remember at the time gold was in the USD $200-300 range. The financial wizards are saying this is for two reasons. Firstly the crap USD and secondly due to the general health of the world wide financial markets. Gold has historically something that people have turned to as hard currency in bad times as its something they can see. Generally now days currency is electronic so hard to see and it fluctuates. I just wish the AUD$ would drop against the GBP£ but as can be seen here it seems unlikely as the Australian economy is too strong at the moment.
Welcome to the inaugural London Rant.
BAA amuses me with their increases to taxes that they’ve just been granted. I have no idea why the government has granted them an allowance to do this. From their website they report an operating profile of £577 million yet they still manage to completely fuck up the operations and security of the likes of hugely important airports like Heathrow. There have been two major security incidents in the last couple of weeks, the last one occuring as I write this. They also manage to loose more baggage than Imelda Marcos has shoes as well as not even managing to maintain things like baggage handling facilities!
How does the government allow this to continue happening? I would guess that they get a large percentage of the taxes that BAA collects so allowing them to increase the taxes allows them to collect more from the general consumer who is already paying. I recently went to New York for a holiday. The cost of the return ticket from Heathrow was £285.30 but I was interested to note at the bottom of the confirmation email was a breakdown of the cost, the flight was £102 but the the Tax/Fee/Charges was £183.30! Nearly twice that of the actual fare!
Surely their ability to increase taxes and hence their revenue should be tied to their performance, especially that of security and the basics like their ability to be able to load/unload planes with luggage. They strike me to be alot like most of the formerly publicly owned companies completely incompetent due to being filled with ex public servants but profit driven due to their private ownership.
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